EPIZYME, INC. (NASDAQ:EPZM) Files An 8-K Results of Operations and Financial Condition

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EPIZYME, INC. (NASDAQ:EPZM) Files An 8-K Results of Operations and Financial Condition

Item2.02

Results of Operations and Financial
Condition

On March9, 2017, Epizyme, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the
Company) announced its financial results for the year ended
December31, 2016. The full text of the press release issued in
connection with the announcement is furnished as Exhibit 99.1 to
this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated herein by
reference.

The information provided under Item2.02 of this Form 8-K
(including Exhibit 99.1) shall not be deemed filed for purposes
of Section18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended
(the Exchange Act) or otherwise subject to the liabilities of
that section, nor shall it be deemed incorporated by reference in
any filing under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the
Exchange Act, except as expressly set forth by specific reference
in such a filing.

Item9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits

(d) Exhibits

99.1 Press release issued by the Company on March9, 2017*
* The exhibit shall be deemed to be furnished, and not filed.


About EPIZYME, INC. (NASDAQ:EPZM)

Epizyme, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company. The Company discovers, develops and plans to commercialize epigenetic therapies for cancer patients. The Company’s segment is the discovery and development of novel epigenetic therapies for cancer patients. It develops small molecule inhibitors of a class of enzymes known as histone methyltransferases, or HMTs. It develops small molecule inhibitors of other chromatin modifying proteins, or CMPs. Its lead product candidate, tazemetostat, is a selective inhibitor of the EZH2 HMT. It is evaluating tazemetostat in a Phase II study in adults with relapsed or refractory non-Hodgkin lymphoma, or NHL, and one Phase II study in adults and one Phase I study in children with certain genetically-defined solid tumors. It has programs in development, including a Phase I clinical trial of pinometostat, an inhibitor of the DOT1L HMT, for the treatment of children with MLL-r, an acute leukemia with genetic alterations of the MLL gene.

EPIZYME, INC. (NASDAQ:EPZM) Recent Trading Information

EPIZYME, INC. (NASDAQ:EPZM) closed its last trading session down -0.10 at 15.10 with 643,465 shares trading hands.